PokerStars review

World's favourite poker site

$600 welcome bonus

Superb customer service

Probably the best reward scheme there is

Why play at PokerStars?

PokerStars is the biggest, most popular online poker room in the world.. It's been around for 10 years now and has a well-earned reputation for having world-class customer service and the best reward scheme out there. This really is an excellent site and if you're looking for a new poker site to call 'home', this should definitely be your first port of call. It has the biggest and best games going with every type of game and stake you could ever want catered for. And at the moment they're offering new players a welcome bonus of up to $600.

PokerStars software

PokerStars offers some of the best poker software in the world. It's fast, it's reliable and it's great for multi-tabling.

Many players love PokerStars as it offers such excellent support for playing multiple tables at once. In fact it supports up to 24 being open at once in either tile, cascade or stack formats via a single click of the mouse.

It's great for customisation as well, coming with 24 table themes to choose from as well as three different card decks. You can also use the custom background feature to upload your own images. You can also find sites on the internet where you can buy custom 'mods' to upload as well.

PokerStars supports both notetaking on your opponents and colour-coding.

All in all it's probably the smoothest, most user-friendly poker client you will find online and is absolutely world class.

PokerStars also recently launched a mobile version of its poker software, which means you can now play online poker on your Android, iPhone or iPad mobile device.

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PokerStars games

As you'd expect from a leading online poker site, Stars has a great range of games, with pretty much any variety and buyin of poker game you could want. One of the best things about PokerStars is they have some of the biggest online tournaments in the world, including the famous 'Sunday Million' and the World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP). The big tournaments have huge prize pools and the chance to win life-chaning amounts of money. In terms of cash games, every one will find one to suit them as the stakes vary between $0.01/$0.02 and $200/$400.

PokerStars welcome bonus

PokerStars offers a generous first time deposit bonus of 100%, up to $600. This is a great offer and well worth checking out.

How do you earn the bonus? You do it by earning VPPs (VIP Player Points). Each time you get 170 VPPs you get $10 of the bonus. Each dollar in rake/fees paid earns 5.5 VPPs. So the more poker you play at PokerStars, the faster you earn the bonus and get your hands on that money. These first time deposit poker bonuses are great ways of building up a bankroll.

PokerStars player reward and loyalty scheme

The PokerStars VIP club is renowned in the poker community for being simply THE best, most lucrative and easy to understand reward scheme there is, hands down.

Any poker play on the site is rewarded with Frequent Player Points (more commonly referred to as FPPs) and VIP Player Points (or VPPs). FPPs are what can be saved up and exchanged for either tournament entries or from a huge list of items for sale in the VIP Store.

Meanwhile, VPPs (monthly ones are reset every month) determins your status in the VIP scheme, with the levels you can achieve including Bronze Star, Silver Star, Gold Star, Platinum Star, Supernova, and the much sought-after Supernova Elite.

Each level of the program brings with a range of benefits including bonuses, VIP tournaments and so on. For serious grinders/pros, the value in hitting a large amount of yearly VPPs is huge, with 'Milestone Cash Credits' being awarded for 200,000 VPPs and upwards from there, starting at $2600. For hitting 3,000,000 VPPs, a huge $136,800 will be achieved just from these cash credits.

The PokerStars VIP store is the best player reward store in online poker. It offers you the chance to cash in your hard-earned FPPs for pretty much anything you can think of. For example, bonuses, cash rewards, tournament tickets, watches, electronics, poker items, even cars! The more points you save up, the higher the rewards you can 'buy'.

PokerStars traffic

PokerStars is hands down the busiest online poker room in the world. This means you're never going to be waiting long for a game, whether you're after sit n gos, MTTs, or cash games. There's still plenty of bad players on the site so plenty of 'dead money' out there for the taking. Cash games are constantly packed and SNGs fill up in no time at all.Whatever poker game you're into you can find the busiest ever poker traffic right here at PokerStars.

PokerStars pros

As you'd expect from the world's leading poker room, the biggest and best names in professional poker can be found playing on PokerStars. To name just a few of the biggest names, these include Daniel Negreanu, Viktor Blom, Chris Moneymaker, Jonathan Duhamel and Barry Greenstein.